Awesome moms in China

So, at Baby Michael’s birthday party, I was talking to my handsome yet goofy Uncle Mikey (who is only seen from the waist down over at my Aunt Susan’s blog), ’cause he’s also brilliant and interesting, but, as I said, in a really, really goofy way. (Come on, I call the man “Uncle Mikey“, and we’re both very grown people. So what if he was a tiny boy when I was born and we grew up together; “Uncle Mikey” stuck, and it stuck for a reason.)

So brilliant and interesting Michael, Sr, was sharing with me this story about this amazing mommy in China who saved nine babies after the earthquake by breastfeeding them. Yep, helpless babies — some of them orphaned — who would have died from starvation and dehydration otherwise were spared because of her. Her baby was safe and unharmed and with family, so she responded to the disaster with all she had to offer, and, thus, she saved some of the tiniest victims of the terrible disaster.

Jiang Xiaojuan is my new hero in life, and the next time I talk to my in-laws I will totally learn how to pronounce her name.

Okay, so those of you who spend a lot of time be-boping around the internet (yeah, I’m in a Frank Sinatra mood) may have run across a particular news item and been convinced it was a hoax, but it’s totally true. There really are fake eggs in China, and they’re being distributed in Hong Kong.

And I don’t know this just from the internet. No, I have a real, reliable source:

Bethy’s Pappy.

Yep. It seems that recently he was talking on the phone to his mother in Hong Kong, and she explained to him that she had cracked an egg that wouldn’t fry. She called a neighbor to share this strange phenomenon, and her neighbor told her to not eat it, that it was a fake egg, and that likely the whole dozen of the eggs she had purchased were fake and should, therefore, not be eaten. Apparently, the neighbor’s daughter is a nurse at a local hospital, and people had, indeed, become ill from eating the false fowl.

Now I’m not a fear monger of any sort, but I just wanna say that since stuff from China — good and bad — has a tendency to show up here, I may just develop a habit of checking the first egg out of every dozen to see if it’ll fry before I eat any of them. Jus’ sayin’…

So, thank you, Pappy’s mother, for sharing this!!

(And thank you, Nana, for marrying Pappy. Well, not just for this. For lots of reasons. Aw, you know them… Not the least of which is …